Well, Bosco you''re probably right I kind of figured eventually I''d have to upgrade,breakdown and get an accelerator card..hehehe Especially now that I''m getting into 3D graphics,using OpenGl,etc. I guess I''ve put it off for too long... Maybe I''ll get the Voodoo 5 card, of course it''s around $400 bucks!! hahahaha I think then I should have enough graphics processing power then huh? Thanks for the advice, Bill WWash46508@aol.com p.s. oh by the way, so do you think getting an accellerator card like a Voodoo will fix this (can''t find a suitable pixel format) problem???